Chapter 1
"These streets must be sanitized. To save our city, we must burn away this disease. Every trace of it. No matter the cost."— Cleaners
The cleaners of manhattan a large threat to the JTF and Division. Most of the cleaners used to be sanitation workers, janitors, custodians, etc. The cleaners believed in using fire to destroy the virus. They didn't care what or who they burned. They showed no sympathy to the sick or the people they deemed to be sick. Ever since the death of Joe Ferro and the loss of our main napalm storage and production facility we've been having trouble keeping up with all the other factions.
My name is Jack Ferro, I am Joe Ferro's son. Ever since my father's death cleaner teams that roamed the city have lessened and are now four people per team. Me and my team were different from other cleaner teams. Instead of just burning everything down we helped people and only burned contaminated items and dead bodies. Hell we even help JTF soldiers, civilians, sometimes even division agents escape the flames of other cleaners.
Me and my team were the best of friends and there was nothing we couldn't handle together. My team consisted of Sean Reyes a fast runner and brutal in close combat. He played the shield role in our little crew but he always kept a double barrel shotgun with him just in case. My second team member was Max Powell the teams mechanic slash sweeper that could build just about anything, he always had the ak-47 with the flamethrower instead of a shotgun. And last but not least my girlfriend Zoe Garcia. She is the teams fumigator slash sniper. She also had an m9 pistol for whenever someone would get to close for comfort. Zoe had also gathered division med kits over the time we've been together. I myself was an incinerator since my dad always had me do sports so I could lift all the things we needed. My weapons consisted of my flamethrower and a M60 light machine gun for when I run out of fuel.
Me and my team already had a history despite all of us being teenagers. 'The pride and joy of the cleaners' my father always told us whenever we came back from a successful mission. The missions we normally went to just involve killing rikers or hunting down some supplies.
Today me and my team were tasked with ambushing a truck carrying medical supplies that we badly needed. When we got there it was an all out war. The truck was in the middle of a four way street, and in each street was a different faction. One street held the rioters, another street held the rikers, etc. In the middle of it all were dozens of JTF soldiers and some division agents.
To say it was a nightmare was an understatement. It was more like hell. There was fire, dead bodies, explosions everywhere. Me and my team took cover the moment we got there. "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!" Max shouted as he set up a turret.
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I KNOW?! EITHER WAY WE HAVE TO GET THAT CRATE!" Jack shouted back as he blind fired his M60. "SWEETHEART HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET IT IF IT'S SURROUNDED BY THE OTHER FACTIONS?!" Zoe shouted. Jack shrugged he's shoulders and looked around and noticed that the LMB are pulling out. "GUYS LOOK THE LMB ARE PULLING OUT!" Jack said as he pointed in the LMB'S direction. The team ran out of their cover and ran towards the crate. A division agent noticed and opened fire. The team got behind Jack as he burned the agent alive. The agent screamed as he was being burned and got the attention of the other agents. The other agents looked in horror as they saw the agent burn alive. While the agents were distracted by the burning of their comrade, Sean and Max grabbed the crate and ran while Jack and Zoe covered them. As the team was running through the city, the city speakers suddenly turned on. Everyone stopped firing and looked at each other in confusion until someone spoke through the speakers.
"Attention to all the people in Manhattan the remains of the government have decided to launch a nuclear missile on Manhattan. I advise to go underground to take cover from the blast. Best of luck to all of you. And may God have mercy on our souls" The man of the speaker said gravely.
Everyone ran towards the nearest subway entrance or building, some even dropping there weapons entirely. The team was able to get back to base with the medicine and had everything packed up. Weapons, ammunition, uniforms, etc. The team and the rest of the cleaners ran to the subway crates of supplies in tow. "GET INSIDE! SICK AND INJURED FIRST, THEN THE SUPPLIES AFTER ALL THAT'S IN GET AS FAR DEEP WITHIN THE SUBWAY AS YOU CAN!" Jack shouted as he lifted one of the crates. The evacuation was going well until the team heard a jet fly over head. Instead of the crates going in next the team had the rest of the cleaners go in first. An explosion went off nearby and the team saw the mushroom cloud rise into the sky. The team pushed a few of the supply crates inside the subway completely ignoring the weapons, ammunition, and uniform crates.
A bright flash blinded the team and the next thing they knew was complete silence.
[TIMESKIP]
Jack awoke to the sound of gunfire and screaming. He got up and looked around. Completely regretting the decision to look around. Jack saw that he was in some sort of village and saw some sort of black werewolf rip a man in half. The tall wolf looked at Jack with bright red eyes and started running at him. In a panic Jack looked around and saw his M60. Jack crawled to his LMG and tried to pick it up. Before he could pick it up the wolf grabbed him and pulled him back. The wolf tried to bite Jack's throat but Jack had the wolf bite his forearm instead. Jack winced in pain as he felt the wolf bite into his arm. Jack struggled to get the wolf off of him but the wolf proved to be stronger than it looked. The wolf tried to slash at Jack but before it could bring down its paw a gunshot ran through the air before the wolf's head was blown off. Jack pushed the wolfs body off him and looked and saw Zoe.
"JACK!" Zoe said with tears in her eyes as she hugged Jack as if her life depended on it. "Zoe what happened? Where are we?" Jack asked, confused as to how they got there. "Well I don't know. After the blast I just woke up here, with you, Sean, and Max. The villagers were kind and took care of us while we all recovered. Sean and Max are currently dealing with the grimm at the town hall. I just came back out to find you. We even found the crates we weren't able to shove down the subway stairs." Zoe replied "What's the grimm? And how am I wearing my armor if you said we've been here for a bit?" Jack asked while he tilted his head
"None of the towns people could lift you long enough to get the straps off so they just took of your boots and mask. And when this attack started they just put your mask and boots on and dragged you here with your M60 strapped to your back but something blew up and sent you flying over here and your M60 over there. And the grimm are some sort of evil darkness hellbent on destroying humanity." Zoe explained as Jack picked up his M60. "Ok... alright. Let's head back to this town hall and see if we can help out. And do the villagers have some sort of escape plan?" Jack asked as the duo ran through an alleyway.
"I'm not sure. They said they would contact someone but I'm not sure who or what they're calling." Zoe replied as she fired her M14 at a wolf grimm. The couple ran through town searching buildings for anyone left behind. The couple had been searching for at least an hour until they found a little bunny girl crying in a alleyway. The girl heard footsteps behind her and saw a very big man wearing big armor and a scary mask while carrying a big gun. The girl crawled backwards trying to get away from the scary man until her back hit the wall. The little girl curled up into a ball and started crying again waiting for the man to kill her. She cried for five minutes hearing gunshots but never feeling any pain. The girl looked up and saw the big man tackle a wolf grimm into the wall before he fired his gun into the monsters chest. The little girl then saw a lady holding a rifle roll in front of her and shoot a monster in the head before picking her up and started running with the big man towards the town hall.
The couple ran to the town hall while Zoe carried the little rabbit girl and Jack turning around to shot any pursuers every little here and there. The three made it to the town hall and saw Sean and Max fighting off grimm at the front doors. Max saw the three and set up a crude flame turret and threw it behind the running couple. The turret burned all the grimm chasing the three while Sean cleared a path for them. "Zoe get her inside, I'm going to get my flamethrower!" Jack said as he fired towards the wave of grimm. Zoe nodded and brought the girl inside while Jack followed her inside and saw his flamethrower. Jack came back out and wielded both his flamethrower and M60. While Jack, Sean, and Max were fighting at the front Zoe set up on the roof and shot any grimm that snuck behind them. The team fought the grimm for three straight hours until several VTOL gunships showed up and mowed down the grimm while bullhead's landed and evacuated the towns people.
An hour later the team and the little bunny girl were sitting on their supply crates until a bunch of soldiers in bright white armor try to take the crates. "Sir I'm gonna have to tell you and your friends to get off the crates so we can put them on the bullhead's" One of the soldiers said while trying to get the crate. Jack only pointed to the cleaner mark on the crate and the cleaner patches on his teams arms. "Sir I understand that this is your property but please get off the crates so we can load them onto the bullheads so we can all get back home." The soldier said clearly getting annoyed. "Listen soldier boy I don't know if you can't get the message but me and my friends are tired and in no mood to travel so were just gonna stay here." Jack said in a threatening tone. "Then what about the faunus girl?" The soldier said trying to seem unfazed by the threat. The Atlas soldiers had reviewed the left over security footage throughout the town and were terrified of the four gas masked people in front of them. "My mommy and daddy were killed by the monsters and these guys saved my life so I want to stay with them" Said the little rabbit girl completely oblivious to the tension in the air. "I'm sorry little one but I'm afraid you have to go with the soldiers so you can find the rest of your family and live with them." Zoe said in a sad tone as she put down the little girl. The team said goodbye to the little girl as the soldiers took her away. The team was about to get up until they heard the pained cries of the little girl. Out of fear for the rabbit girl the team picked up there weapons and ran the corner only to see one of the soldiers grin as he pulled the girl by her rabbit ear.
"OW! OW! YOUR HURTING ME! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!" The little girl screamed in pain as the soldier pulled harder. "HEY! THAT'S ENOUGH!" Jack shouted as he stomped towards the soldiers while shooting his flamethrower at the ground for intimidation. The soldiers stopped dead in their tracks as they heard Jack's voice and nearly pissed their pants as they saw him walk towards them whilst ignoring the flames around him. "Sir please understand that this girl was being difficult so we had to resort to more forceful methods." The soldier said nervously as he let go of the little rabbit girls ear. "Pulling her by her rabbit ears was not right! I saw how you ignored her cries of pain. And if I was seeing things correctly you were happy she was in pain. So there are two thing on my mind right now. One, how badly I'm going to hurt you and your friends. And two, how much I HATE racist people like you." Jack said in a very threatening tone. "Zoe do you think you Sean and Max could take care of the little girl while I take care of these assholes?" Zoe nodded and picked up the little rabbit girl and walked off with Sean and Max in tow. Before Sean walked off he said "You guys done fucked up hurting this little girl." before patting one of the soldiers in the back and walked off.
[MEANWHILE OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL]
Winter Schnee a proud specialist of the Atlas army was outside the town hall making sure things went off without a hitch. Well she was until she heard shouting and cries of pain from inside the town hall. The Atlas specialist motioned for her men to grab their weapons while she slowly walked towards the doors. Winter was about to open the door until it was thrown open and a squad of her men and smoke burst out the open door. The soldiers that flew out the door were covered in burn marks and looked as if they had just taken a beating. (Which they did) The remaining soldiers and Winter looked at each other in confusion until they heard strange breathing coming from inside. Winter looked inside and saw Jack slowly walking through the fire. Winter backed away from the door as Jack came closer. Jack stood at the door way and looked around. The remaining townspeople that were still there had gathered to see Jack standing over the injured Atlas soldiers.
"LISTEN UP! YOU SEE THESE MEN? THESE MEN ARE LIKE THIS FOR ONE REASON! AND THAT REASON IS! I! HATE! RACISTS! I CAUGHT THESE GUYS HURTING A LITTLE RABBIT GIRL FOR NO REASON! AND SO I HAD TO TAKE MATTERS INTO MY OWN HANDS! SO! IF I EVER SEE ANYONE BEING RACIST! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS! I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE! IF YOUR RACIST YOU GET HURT! OK?" Jack shouted out as the villagers and some of the soldiers nodded in fear. Winter looked in shock as ONE MAN had beating some of Atlas's finest soldiers. The worst part was the fact that the man looked fine. Winter pulled out her sword and kept the blade an inch from Jack's throat. "You are under arrest for assaulting a squad of Atlas soldiers. Private Donut, put him in cuffs" Winter said in a cold tone. It was at that moment the rest of Jack's team and the little girl came out of the now burning town hall and cheered Jack on while the Atlas soldiers cheered on Winter and stood in a circle around the two.
"Ladies first" Jack said dryly. Winter scuffed and slashed at Jack's neck but Jack took a step back and tried to burn Winter. Winter summoned a glyph and used it as a shield against the flames. Winter smirked thinking Jack would run out of fuel in a second if he kept going on like this. Jack simply walked forward as he kept the heat on Winter. Winter was starting to feel nervous because Jack wasn't letting up with the flames and her glyph was starting to falter. Jack noticed the glyph start to slowly fade and charged Winter, shattering the glyph and catching Winter off guard. Jack tackled Winter into the ground and tried to stomp on her face but Winter rolled out the way and slashed the back of Jack's left knee. Jack grunted in pain as he felt the cold steel of the blade cut through his suit and into his flesh giving him a deep cut and drawing blood. Jack turned around and tried to grab Winter by the face. Winter jumped back up and summoned a boarbatusk. Jack was caught off guard at the fact this woman could summon the grimm. The boarbatusk did a rolling charge at Jack but he threw his flamethrower away and stopped the boarbatusk mid role and threw it into the ground. Jack then pulled out two fire axes and plunged both axes into the pigs head. Jack pulled out the axes and wrapped a bandage around his knee while Winter was catching her breath. Jack dumped his flamethrowers fuel tanks onto the side and charged Winter. Winter side stepped the charge and tried to slash at Jack's right knee. Jack was prepared this time and blocked the slash with one of his axes and tried to swing at Winter. Winter blocked with her sword and summoned a glyph behind her to keep her from losing balance. Jack and Winters weapons were now interlocked and was now a power struggle. Jack was clearly winning as the look of fear in Winters eyes had been any indication. Jack suddenly pulled Winter forward and slammed his knee into her stomach making Winter gasp for air. Jack pushed Winter into the ground and slashed at her stomach making Winters aura flare to keep her from getting to injured. Jack continued to mercilessly attacked Winter as she struggled to get up. Jack roared and picked Winter up and threw her into the crowd. The unfortunate group of soldiers Winter got tossed into fell victim to Jacks hail of bullets as he fired all one hundred armor piercing rounds into the dust where Winter landed.
Once the dust settled the crowd gasped as they saw Winter unconscious with blood coming from the edge of her mouth while the soldiers were nothing more than paste. Atlas medics ran to Winter and got her on board one of the bullheads and flew off as the crowd left the battle site to reach the other bullheads. The remaining soldiers also left as soon as all the townspeople had been evacuated. After the fight Jack and his friends went into one of the local houses and ate dinner, dealt with his leg and went to bed.